Combination sign and awning



Dec. 23, 1930. H. R. DAVIS COMBINATION SIGN AND AWNING Filed Aug. 20. 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet l Invcnlor Allorney Dec. 23, 1930. H. R. DAVIS 1,785,309

COMBINATION SIGN AND AWNING Filed Aug. 20, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 mnnnunnnnnnnn Inventor By 2mm A llorney 1 Patented Dec. 23, 1930 HAnrtY noBERr Davis, on menu, NEW HAMPSHIRE COMBINATION SIGN AND AWNING Application filed August 20, 1930. Serial No. 476,690.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a combination sign and awning, and the invention aims to provide a device which may be used asa-n awning, and I 5 when not in use as an awning may be moved to a display position, and used as a'sign. It is one of the objects of the invention to provide a device which although primarily used as an awning, may be so positioned that when it is not desired to usethe device as an awning, it will, occupy a display position in which, position it may be used as a sign.

' "It'is a further object of the invention to v provide a new and novel means for supporting the device in such a manner that it may be positioned in a downwardly inclined plane to serve as anawning, or in a verticalor upstanding plane to serve as a display sign.

To the above ends, the device comprises twosubstantially rectangular fiat members hingedly connected together, each of said members being'supported from the wall ofa building, and operating means whereby upon are at right angles'to each other but each in avertical plane inorder to display the outer surfaces or faces thereof as a sign.

With the above and other'objects, in View, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which,

accordance with the present invention, illustrating one of themembers in thevertical plane in sign display position in full lines,

1 and in brokenlines in the inclined position in which the member serves as an awmng,

Figure 2, is a'detail-seotionalview illustratingj the" manner in which the members I forming the combined sign and awning are 4 mounted,

. Figure 1, is a view partly in section and, partly in elevation of a device constructed in Figure 3,is a rear view in elevation illustratlng the operating mechamsm of the members, and;

Figure 4, is a top plan view of the device showing the members in sign display position.

, R eferring to the drawings by reference character, A represents the wall of a building, and secured thereto as at 10, there is a depending bracket 11 which is offset as at 12 ,to space the bracket from the wall A. Se-

of the screws may be mounted in suitable bearings 17. Mounted below the angular member 14, there is a housing 18, and the purpose of this housing will be hereinafter more particularly described."

Projecting from the wall at substu tially right angles thereto, there are two aims 20 and 21, and each of these arms is pro W ded on its outer ends with a reduced portion 22 and a head 23. Thesearms 20 and 21 may be secured tothe angular member 13 as at 22.

I The reference characters 24 anc 25 desig nate two substantially rectangular flat memhere which are hingedlyconnected together as at 26. As more clearly illustrated in Figure 1, each of these members is provided on its "rear facewith a curved guide slot 27, and the head 23 of the arms 20 and 21 areadapted for operation in the guide slot 27 of their respective member 24 or 25 as more clearly illustrated in Figure 1. Carried by the screws 15 and 16.heretoiore mentioned, there are sleeves 30 and 31 respectively. The sleeve 30 is con- I nected with the upper outer corner of the member 35 as at'32 by a link 33, and the sleeve 31 is connected to the upper outer corner of the member 24 as at 34, by a link 35. The links 33 and 35 cross each other and are piveotally connected together and to a sleeve 37 as at 36. Thesleeve' 37 is slidably mounted upon the guide 11 and is adapted to move vertically thereof. 7 7

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that as the screws15 and 16 are rotated, the

position these members serve as a sign, "and are 'ner."

V of the'heads 23 throughthe curved slotf27,

tend to move the members '24and 25 into the same plane',and upon movement of'the headtion26;

For moving the screw 16, one of said screws is. provided with-a bevelled gear 40 which meshes with ajbevelled gear 41' carriedonthe' upper end of a shaft 42 the lower end of which; carries a bevelled gear 43 which meshes with a bevelled gear 4% carried by a shaft 15v adapt-. 3- ed to be operated byqacrank 46. The gears 43 and as andthe shaft 45 are mounted in the housing 18'heretofore mentioned. Thus it will beseen that upon rotation of the crank 16, throughthe medium of'the gears 44 and 43, the shaft 42, and the gears LO and 40, the screw 16 willbe rotated and through the 'llldllllll of the connecting member A9, the.

screw 15 will likewise be rotated to movethe sleeves 30 and 31 therealongto effect opera tionof the links 33 and 35.

The device operates in the'following man- In Figure 4;, the two members 24 and-25 are shown d sposed at substantiallyright angles to each other, and in a vertical plane, in wh ch so positioned as to display any suitable reading matter which maybe provided'upontheir outer face. If now the crank-46 begrasped and through the medium of the gears and sha ting heretofore described, the screws 15 and 16 be vrotated so that the sleeves 31 move towards the outer endsofrthe screws, the member 32' will -move downwardly on the guide 11 and the members 24 and 25 willbe spread apart about their hingedconnection -26 to aposition where they occupy the same plane. During this movement, the movement "ed members 23 throughtheir respective 'slo'ts 2?, the members 2 and 25 will bemoved to the broken line position showuiuFigu're'l. In this position, the members 24qand'25jproject downwardly and outwardly from the wall A andserve as an awmngb: Y

t. L 1 rrom the foregoing, it will be apparent that the present invention provides an awn- 'ing'which may be used either as an awning,

or which may bemoved to a display-- position I to serve as a'sign.

'VVhile the invention has be'en herein disclosed 1 in what may be. termed 'a' preferred forimit i'sto be understood-thatthe invention is not to be limited to the specific construction erein shown, and'that it may be practiced in other forms without departing from the spirit thereof. 1 V I Havingthus described my invention; what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. A device of the character described comprising a'suitable support, a plurality of arms projecting from said support, a sign member mounted for universal swinging movement upon eachv of said arms, said sign members being hingedl'y connected toi Hgether, and means for moving said sign mem bersab'out said. arms to position them in various angular ositiens relative to said support, Y

2. A device of the character described com-l prising {:a pair ofgnembers hingedly connected together, means for mounting said fmembers upon a suitable support, and means "for moving'saidmembers about their hinged connection, and their mounting to position said me'inbers atri'ghtangles' to each other in a vertical plane, and formoving said'members into the same plane andat an angle with respect to said support; I

13. A combined signand awning compris ing 'two meinbe'rs hingedly connected together, means for supporting said" members 1;

from the side wall of a building, andmeans 1 for moving said members about their support toa declined' position reljativ'etothe wall of "the building to form' an awning from said members, and formovi'ng" said members into a vertical plane at right angles 'to the wall of the building to form a sign;

7 AMA combined sign and awning compris- --ingtwo hingedly connected relatively fiat members each of which is formed Wllill a curved guide slotjin its rear face, a single supporting arm" for each member," a head upon each a'rm,' each head operating in the guide slot of its respective member, and means for "moving said members about'their resp'ective' supporting arm and cause said members to position themselves in the same angular plane or in a vertical planev at right *angles to eachiother asandfor the purpose set forth;

vided with'a curved guide: slot,isupporting means engageable in the guide slots of said members,-meansfor hingedly connecting said members together, and means for moving said members about: their hinged connection,

and their respective support to caus'ethe members to assumea downwardly inclined position to provide an awning, or to assume 1 a vertical position at right angles to each other .t'oprovide a sign.

6. ;A combined sign anda-wning compris mg two :relatively' fiat members each ,pro-

vided'with a curved guideslot,supporting 'iic , I 5.' A combined sigifand awning comprisc. i1ng ;two i'elatively flat members each pro-i its means engageable in the guide slots of said members, means for hingedly connecting said members together, and means for moving said members about their hinged connection, and their respective support .to cause the members to assume a downwardly inclined position to provide an awning or to assume 1 a vertical position at right angles to each other to provide a sign, said means comprising a pair of alined screws, sleeves surround- 

